Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These creatures have been unfairly treated as scapegoats for dwindling clam populations in regions like the Chesapeake Bay. It’s ...

More than 100 cownose rays died in the waters off the shores of northern Anne Arundel County near Glen Burnie in recent weeks, creating an odor residents say deterred them from leaving their homes.

Florida wildlife officials are turning to local boaters, anglers, and divers to help figure out what is happening to the state’s cownose ray population. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation ...

The Movement of Life Initiative is a developing program in animal tracking research conducted by Smithsonian Institution researchers and their colleagues. As part of the program, scientists Matt ...

It was a beautiful sight to see when a "fever" of cownose rays was seen "moo-ving" around in Old Tampa Bay. Pinellas County environmental scientists spotted the group of rays during a routine water ...

It's easy to forget about the legion of mysterious creatures that live in the ocean. That is, until you are right on top of them. Like schools of fish, some creatures, such as cownose rays, travel and ...